With Silvija's help we got to an airport in Spain. Zeph used the email network ever popular within the Brotherhood, Hephaestus I think it's called, to let mom and Venus know how things are going and with the update that we'll be going to Vancouver. Silvija had also at that point taken Sefa to meet up with our mom and Venus, to get her sorted out with some cover identity in order to escape Abstergo's attention.
From Spain, we took a flight straight to Vancouver.
Once we had landed, Zeph found a… Venomous email from our mother. Stating that she was displeased with how we had just up and left the continent without coming to get them, or even contacting them directly, and that they would be leaving as soon as they were able. This email also stated that our father would be in the vicinity of the west coast and would be joining us at some point.
Hearing that made me realize how not ready I am to tell my dad. We had always been close while I was growing up, until I had lost interest in all the things that he wanted to share with me. Namely, everything that would have eventually led to me becoming an Assassin. It had been after that that we had drifted apart. He started to take more jobs—which I now assume would've all been for the Brotherhood—more often and was home less and less as I went through high school and subsequently graduated.
Now I'm in a café across the street from our mark. The sun is setting already, but we've now made all of our preparations. The guys are using alternate means to infiltrate the building. Mom had wanted us to wait for dad, but I don't want them to learn any more about Yusuf than they probably already have since they landed while we were just leaving Spain. Which has given them three days with him at this facility with a day and a half being the time we used to scrape together a rough plan of action. So we are going in now. I'm currently in the guise of a company worker, well dressed but not extravagantly so, with my hair tied into a tidy low bun. Which seemed to be the look of a great many of the woman coming and going from the building over the last day. I have the two bangles on, one could argue that they look exceptionally nice, but in current times costume jewellery can look very convincing. I opted to leave the hidden blade behind at our fallback location, which is a motel just in White Rock, near the southern edge of the city. As lovely as it is, the bulk of the hidden blades from back then is too obvious now.
Shaun managed to find and duplicate the frequency to gain access to the building through the entrance, so we fabricated a tag quickly for the look, but I will be using a fresh, blank smartphone to emit the wireless signal that will get me in. The other two are using alternate methods to get in. And luckily for us, Rebecca agreed to be our computer person for the adventure, carefully disguising our presence in the building. With Shaun naturally present as well… The price? Being let in on the whole story. She already knows most of it from supervising Aquilo in Ezio's memories, but this promise is to go further in depth with the details. This was not my idea, but Zeph made the decision on the fly, knowing that we would need some kind of technical assistance and we didn't readily have an extra person capable of what we would need. In our correspondence I learnt that Layla had gone on with the two of them. And I did manage to convince them to keep my whole business secret from her.
With so many people suddenly knowing my anxiety has been rising. And with Layla being the person Kassandra had been waiting for she must have the staff, and by extension, Aletheia. Who, I admit to being wary about at the best of times, if only that's how Astraeus and Eos tried to keep me with most Isu… Not that it helped with the whole Ilios situation.
I check the time on my phone, take a last swig of the tea on my table and make like I'm going back to work at the building across with my briefcase and everything. I canter to emphasize the look of someone who has taken a little too long of a break.
Walking into the building I can see the security team keeping their attention on me, but over the years I have managed to get highly skilled in acting as though I belong in a place. So once my 'badge' scans me in, they cast their eyes back to the doors to watch for miscreants.
I stroll over to the hall area where there are four elevators, probably to ensure the most efficient delivery of all workers to respective floors at rush times.
"Oh, shoot. I'm late…" I whisper to myself, the code I chose to let the others know that I got in, and I begin to tap my foot on the floor as I wait for the elevator to come and take me higher. I watch the lit-up sign above the elevator that had been at the top of the building and was counting seconds on how long it takes. As I watch the numbers change and the listen to the air whooshing through the elevator shaft, I can hear it passing the floors, but those sounds essentially stop for a few of the number changes on the elevator sign. It had started at the twenty-fourth floor and stopped at the seventeenth, the space between those floors hadn't made any sound of going past doors… So somewhere in those six floors are where the floors that may hold Yusuf. But by the evident lack of doors, it could prove difficult to enter that space.
I gaze up at the high ceilings of the lobby space of the building, with plants and water features that are popular among many of the showier buildings in Vancouver. You'd never think there would be mostly illegal science things happening in a building that looks so executive from the ground floor. But I suppose that is sort of Abstergo's thing. Nothing looks illegal from the outside. It all looks clean cut and tidy, it's only when you take a closer look that you see how it's just like white paint covering up a burnt building.
An elevator behind me dings and I turn to get on it, but a small crowd of official looking people emerge from the elevator. I could tell they had been chatting, but they hush as they notice me waiting to get on the elevator. Noticing that all the people I see get off of it all wear the ring of the Templars causes me to feel a little antsy. Knowing that the people with rings are at the very least higher ups in Abstergo, I dip my head down to acknowledge them as they pass, hoping to pass as a no-name worker. I get on the elevator after they walk towards the building's exit. Rebecca's voice comes over the com in my ear, hidden by my hair.
"Alright, get off at the seventh floor, then to the right there is an office area, head in there and I'll loop the feed for the whole floor and all the elevators. The guys are just getting in. I still haven't narrowed down where the hidden floors are but once I'm into the power grid I'll be able to find them." I pull my phone out and write up a fake text, saying it out loud as I compose it to get the message to Rebecca.
"The cab fare should be between seventeen and twenty-four dollars…" I slip the phone into the pocket of the business slacks I'm wearing.
"Gotcha, once I'm in that's where I'll look." She confirms understanding my message.
"Thank you… I'll get there soon." I slide the phone back into my pocket and then the elevator dings as I arrive at the seventh floor and I exit the elevator. I go into the office space using the phone and badge combo again. Then I go to where no cameras can see me until Rebecca gives the okay.
"Alright, all video for the elevators and seventh floor is now looping." I step out of the office and back to the elevators. "Actually, I think there may be power access in the next utility closet on your left." I look and see a closet there with an electric lock system separate from the badge system we've been using. I walk over to it and place my hand on the lock and overload the lock slightly, but just enough to pop the door open and let me in, but at a low enough amount that it shouldn't look like anything changed on the inside.
"That was really smooth, what did you do there?" Rebecca asks over the comm.
"Classified for now. Don't worry, that's a part of the info pack you'll receive on Zeph's promise." I reply freely this time since the camera's feed are looped anyway. I look around and sure enough there is an electrical conduit in the back of the space. I walk over to it and pull the small device out of my pocket. I then attach it to one of the free plugs and tap the button.
"Excellent. I am gaining access now… And in." She certainly works fast; I leave the closet and go back to the elevators and press the button for up.
Once one arrives I enter and remove the business attire to reveal the athletic clothes beneath and pull the deep hooded, dark green sweater out of the plain briefcase, and put it on. I stuff the business clothes into the briefcase and then pop the vent that leads into the elevator shaft. I climb up and sit at the edge watching the floors' doors go by and place the briefcase on the top of the elevator.
"Hmm… I can't see exactly which floors, but it looks like there are four floors that appear to be set up on a separate energy draw from the rest of the building. There are only two floors above them drawing power from the same source as the rest of the building… So your floors will most likely be the ones between eighteen and twenty-two. Also, the guys are in from the top of the building." Rebecca briefs me as the floors in question arrive.
"I see the floor numbers and there are no doors for floors eighteen through twenty-two." I mention, it is exactly as I heard it down below.
"Alright, stay on the elevator to twenty-three and get off there, I've already looped the feed there for the boys."
I slide back into the elevator and wait until it dings at floor twenty-three. When the doors open Aquilo and Zephyr are standing there waiting.
"About time you got up here." Zeph jokes.
"Yeah… You took ages." Lio quips along with him.
"Ha, ha… Very funny." I reply as I step out of the elevator, "There's no access to the floors in that elevator. There must be another way in. But before we do that I want to try to feel if he's even down there." Lio squints his eyes and raises his hands.
"But how?" He asks with a tone of utter confusion. And I just sit down for a moment to really focus, "What—" I look to see Zeph shaking his head at Lio, and I close my eyes and concentrate.
There are some security guards posted at a few locations in the floors below us, but it looks like there aren't many people besides them present. Then I see it. A flickering golden figure, as though it were made of tiny particles grown from my power. There are a few people around where he is right now, but judging by their movements, it looks like they are finishing up for the night.
"Wow… I see it… That has to be him, I've never seen my own power from this perspective before, but I can't think of anything else it could be. But we still don't have a way in… Rebecca, have you found anything yet?"
"Maybe… There is an area in the southwest corner of each floor about the size of a commercial elevator. I can't be sure though; the area isn't labelled at all on the floor plans."
"We'll go take a look. You said southwest?" Zephyr confirms over the comms.
"Yep, on these plans, it just looks like storage space, but the spaces on each floor line up perfectly."
"Let's go." I walk in the direction Rebecca mentioned, through hallways with the occasional door into an office with the names on them. Under each name is a line of abbreviated letters. To an ordinary person these would look like titles from doctorates and such, but I can tell that they are really meant to denote the person's rank within the Order of Templars. I imagine that many of these offices go mostly unused and are only here as a formality to the higher ranks of the Order.
After a few minutes of turns in the halls, sure enough, there is a storage space there. The door has a similar lock to the electrical panel on the seventh floor, so we get past that easily enough. And inside this storage space is the unmistakable door to a commercial sized elevator. We go up to the elevator only to find that the door can only be open by passing a biometric scanner.
"Rebecca, you were right, there is a commercial sized elevator in here, but it's locked using a biometric scanner." Zeph says as he looks carefully at the device, "It looks like if I meddle with it, it'll only give us away."
"That's how you know the good stuff is accessed through here. Can you get one of your devices near it?" I place the burner smartphone next to it, "Perfect… Wow, this has some serious security on it. I think the most I can do is open the door; it won't call the elevator to you. If I try more, it will more likely get you discovered."
"That's more than enough." I say as she pops open the door and we pull it the rest of the way open. And we freeclimb down to the next door which Rebecca pops as we arrive to it.
The facility on the other side screams laboratory with every single inch. The clean walls, the signs at every door specifying what kinds of chemicals could be inside. I use my extended version of Eagle Vision to maneuver our way through the corridors while not being seen by any of the sparse security patrols.
Then we arrive at the section where he is.
We are a floor higher, looking down into the space, I can see one side has all of the computers and monitoring equipment and in the middle they have him laying on a sort of examination table.
The sight almost causes me to catch my breath, but I manage to hold it together… By the skin of my teeth.
Aquilo waves me over to where he found a way down to the space.
"I'm going to go see if we can get a decently secure way out. The elevator shaft won't work if we're carrying someone unconscious." I nod before going to follow Aquilo down to the examination looking space.
I just about rush to him when I spot the video cameras. I stop myself, causing a jab to my heart. He is so close, but I have to deal with this first. I go over to the computers and activate them all.
Once I weasel my way into the system, I comb through the contents. Mostly them doing nervous system tests, seeing eyes dilate, checking for all the things you would look for in a regular recovering coma patient. But they're also intentionally keeping him under. Wise decision on their part, considering he was an incredibly skilled Assassin.
I delete everything. Lab reports, video footage, notes on his progress, and any trace I can find hinting at the power behind all this. Mostly they assume it is due to the influence of a Piece of Eden. Which would be wrong, but an admirable guess. Considering the Isu did create more than one object that resulted in effective immortality for humans. They never were able to quite manage the feat for themselves though. After I finish erasing the research, I leave a little surprise in some coding to nuke the whole system if someone so much as breathes on it wrong. They will regret this.
Then I rush over to him.
He looks, almost exactly the same, if I had to say any difference it would be that he actually looks a little bit younger… He had been forty-five when he died, there had been some silver hairs sprinkled in his black. But now, I can't see any silver hair at all. His black curls look the same as the first time I met him. His hair doesn't look much longer, which makes sense because my hair hadn't grown much in the times I had been in the dormant state.
He is wearing minimal clothing, probably so that it wouldn't get in the way of whatever tests they were doing. But from what I can see his muscle mass is down. Another similarity between his hibernation and my own. Whenever it happens my body very slowly uses whatever it can, just like a bear that gets fat to hibernate over the winter.
Aquilo is already working at removing the restraints and has already removed the IV drip inducing Yusuf's continued sleep.
I reach my hand out slowly, afraid to touch and have him feel cold. To have it feel like the last time I did this, right before they buried him. To have his face feel dead beneath my fingertips.
Tears sting my eyes as I hover my hand over his face, already feeling the warmth of his skin. I place my hand on his face, against his cheek.
"My light…" I whisper, barely able to believe it, as a tear drops onto his face next to my hand. I see his eyelids begin to react, already the sedative is wearing off.
"We need to move." Aquilo says as he puts a hand on my back.
"Yeah… Do you think you can carrying him on your back?" I ask hopefully.
"Honestly, I kind of expected to be the pack mule this go, you are the tank here after all."
"Hey now… I'm closer to DPS— but yeah— I'll be carrying our team." I laugh a little trying to keep myself from getting too distracted by the man I thought dead. The man who had been the center of my whole world when he had died.
Aquilo hefts Yusuf's arms around his shoulders and I help get Yusuf onto Aquilo's back so we can make our escape. We begin to walk carefully through the halls, when we come across Zeph, who waves us his direction. He leads the way to some kind of emergency escape stairs, and we go in.
"There are only a few exits in this emergency exit stairwell, we have to be as fast as possible because they'll probably guess we've taken this way…" Zeph starts to go down.
"Would it be worth it to go to the top and then down in the regular emergency stairs? Or would that take too much time?" I consider out loud. My gut says to go up first. But I'm not the only one here. Nor am I the one doing the most strenuous work, so I have to consider Lio and Zeph.
"It's not a bad idea, but with what is essentially dead weight, I don't think that it is in our best interest…" Zeph ponders the thought looking up the stair well.
"My vote is to go down, I can carrying him, but not indefinitely." Aquilo adds.
"Fair point. Let's go." I conclude as I begin to canter down the stairs giving the stairs upward one last look before fully committing.
We go down, winding through the cement fire escape stairs for ten minutes without coming across a single door to enter or exit the space. When an alarming begins to blare.
"Shit." Aquilo curses.
"I think it's safe to say they've discovered their lack of five-hundred years not-so-dead Assassin." Zeph comments.
"No shit, Sherlock." I lash back at him.
Then after another minute at a slightly faster pace we find a door that supposedly goes onto the fourteenth floor. I open the door to see a line of Abstergo agents gun aimed right at me. Then they fire and I slam the door shut. I break the hydraulics on the door and jam the bar at the top preventing them from opening the door from that side. I should have been more cautious.
"Fuck. They've got us. They knew we would have to take the emergency stairs down." I curse my self for not pushing harder to go up first. It had only been a few floors. I begin to hear thumping in the stair well above us and some shouting below.
"And they know exactly where all the exits to it are. Maybe we should have bit the bullet and gone up first." Zeph says, "But you definitely didn't have the door closed before they shot. Let me see."
"I'm fine." I respond to him curtly beginning to walk down again.
"Oh no you don't. Show me." Zephyr grabs my shoulder and turns me around.
"They were just using tranquilizers. I'm fine." I open my hand to reveal the darts that I had already pulled off my chest and arm. Six in total.
"That is not fine. We can't have our main fighter fall over from tranquilizers." Aquilo remarks.
"It is fine. As long as I don't take too many of them, my metabolism will be able to counteract the sedative before it can do anything. It would be a different story if these were elephant tranquilizers. But they're not. I am fine. We need to figure out what to do. They're coming at us from above and below." I think on it as quickly as I can.
"We could always toss your boyfriend down to see who he might crush…" Aquilo jokes before having his foot promptly stomped on by Zephyr.
"I think our best option at this point is to go out here." I suggest.
"Excuse me? Go out here? To the guys with the tranq guns ready to fire at us?" Aquilo's voice gets more doubtful with each word.
"Actually… I agree." Zeph says after thinking it over.
"What?" Aquilo asks, completely dumbfounded.
"Well, they're coming at us from above and below. As it is, our best bet is to take on these guys. Rather, have Raea take on these guys. Then we can get to either the elevators, the other emergency stairs or we split up and take both. Either way, once we're out of this stairwell, our escape options expand. Meaning that they will have to divide themselves to make the best chances of catching us." Zeph reasons out why my suggestion would work.
"Exactly. I will take point, because then if any of them land a shot with the tranquilizers they're less likely to cripple me and there by less likely to cripple us." I inform them.
"And how many do you think you can your body take and still deal with it fast enough?" Aquilo enquires.
"At least, dozen maybe a few more than that. If I get too many, I'll send you guys ahead and get them to lower the guns and stall them long enough to let my body process it. Even just a few minutes should be enough to let me get away. But we can't afford to have either of you take any. If it comes down to it, use Yusuf as a shield. He's already under from the sedatives so it'll be fine. And I'm sure he would agree too." I lay out exactly what I'm thinking.
"Alright, but I don't like the idea of us going ahead even to have you stall them for a while. Even if it's just a couple of minutes. Please, let's try to not let it get to that…" Zephyr pleads.
"Okay, we'll try. But you have to accept that I can make my own decisions, I know my limits. Trust me." I counter.
"As long as you trust us." Zephyr responds and Aquilo nods.
"Alright, stand to the sides of the doorway, I'm going to rush them and as we already concluded two dead weights is unacceptable, so wait for me to call you out." I focus for a moment to get a handle on how many are out there, it seems like about six. They're good shots. They each hit their mark. I look at Zephyr and then Aquilo, "Close your eyes."
I kick the door off its hinges, and it slides across the floor while I use my power to create a blinding flash, making it seem as though we set off an explosive of some kind. While the Abstergo agents are crippled the flash, I launch myself into the fray. Focusing more on speed than finesse, I go for the simple hits with decent force behind them to knock each one out and then move on to the next. Once I'm done I stand up and admire my handiwork before calling to the twins.
"Alright, let's move." I call into the stair well. The two of them emerge and their jaws drop.
"That was six guys. Fully outfitted. With tranquilizer guns. And you crippled them all in less than three minutes." Aquilo assess the scene quickly and just kind of stares for a moment.
"Now, that just sounds impossible… But I just watched it over the feed from the cameras. Which I have already erased. We don't need them knowing you can fight like that. Although, I guess with what I already know it almost makes sense." Rebecca's voice comes over the comms. Shit.
"What even was that? It was like some kind of heavenly angel raining destructive vengeance on them… I almost feel sorry for them. Almost." Shaun's voice pokes into the feed, his astonishment clear to hear.
"That will be part of the info package we promised." Zephyr says as we begin to move through the floor.
"You promised." I clarify.
"I should hope so." Shaun says with finality.
With me using my ability to scout ahead so we can avoid most of the patrols looking for us and Rebecca feeding directions, we move rather quickly to the lobby of elevators on this floor. By avoiding most of the patrols, we allow my body some time to deal with the first six darts of tranquilizer. We decide to go for the elevator approach and with Rebecca's help, we manage to get all the elevators to the floor at once and have them all going down at the same time.
Hoping to maximize the confusion we have Yusuf sitting in one next to mine, Aquilo above one across the hall from us, Zephyr riding above the other next to Aquilo's, and myself out in the open of one on the opposite side from them. That makes all four elevators used, forcing them to have people ready at each elevator. With the main threat—me— in front, Aquilo and Zephyr should be able to take down a few Abstergo goons while I deal with the rest, then it's a short run to the door and onto the street. Once we're on the street it's a matter of weaving between buildings to get to one of the two vehicles we planted earlier in the day for our escape.
Of course, this plan is for the possibility that they've had the time to amass a large number of people in the hall. Luckily, they didn't amass a whole bunch for this. Unfortunately, there are more than a few though… By my count using my power, I'd say fifteen. They have two at each elevator door ready to shoot, with two ready on each side holding radios with guns at their sides. That means they're ready to call the ones surely waiting at the stair wells to come over once they confirm we're here. We will have to be fast and I will have to keep close track of how many tranquilizers get me.
"Alright, I am going to start burning my connections. They're onto the fact that someone is helping. Best of luck you guys!" Rebecca says over the comms, Lio and Zeph both thank her.
"Thank you." I say softly before I hear her click out.
As planned, Aquilo and Zephyr's elevator doors open first, revealing empty elevators. So the four facing that direction turn to help the four between Yusuf's elevator and mine.
Then Yusuf's and mine both ding.
And without giving them more than a few seconds to react I launch myself out the door the moment it's wide enough to accommodate me. I manage to get two down before they begin to shoot.
One, two.
Three.
Four…
Take down three more guards.
Five, six, and seven.
Then the guys at each end keep shooting into the fray. Without hitting their own people. Damn they are good shots. As I thin them out it is getting easier move, but I have had to get between a couple of shots and my brothers.
Eight, nine, and ten. Shit. I'm starting to feel the sedatives in the tranq darts.
I take down one of the guys at the end and the two guys leading up to him.
I take shot number eleven and I turn to face the last two, but at that point I turn to see Aquilo and Zephyr standing over the last two guys.
Aquilo goes to grab Yusuf and we are on our way again, but I can hear the others also arriving.
"You guys will have to go ahead. I've taken almost too many. I can stall them for a few minutes with a bluff while you guys get away." I say as I pull the chain from around my neck, add my ring to Yusuf's and place it around Yusuf's neck. I remove the two bracelets that are my swords, I hadn't ended up needing them anyway. I remove the comm from my ear. I also pull my phone out of my pocket. Then I put all of them in the pocket of Aquilo's sweater and when I look at Yusuf his eyes have begun to open.
The same stunning glacial blue that I remember.
"Yusuf." I whisper to him.
"Najmay…?" He whispers back to me. I put a hand on his cheek briefly.
"Yes, my light…" I move my hand to his dark curls and peck his forehead as his eyes close again, "Go… Go, now." I say to them as we see the flood of agents coming from the two sides where the stairs must come out.
"You get out." Zephyr orders as he leads Aquilo around the lobby and out of the building. I run with them a while before I couple of darts begin to fly our way. I take shots twelve and thirteen as Lio and Zeph go out the door. I frantically look around for ways to stall them further and find a metal fence that can come down to prevent people from entering by breaking the windows after hours.
I race up to it and leap to grasp it. Then I pull down with all my weight and bring the whole grate sliding down. I races and get it jammed in position until the group of gun toting agents surround me.
"Well. Well. Well… I am pleasantly surprised to see this." I hear a familiar slimy voice coming from the second-floor overlook area above me, "I was expecting some kind of move from the Assassins, but this seems like it was all rather… Rogue. It's a shame that you ensured their escape. We'll just have to find him again. Shouldn't be too hard, a five-hundred-year-old man shouldn't be able to get too far… Even with the help from a couple of amateur Assassins." I look up and see the figure of Zachariah Moore strolling to the stairs to come down to me. All while his goons have me surrounded guns trained on me loaded with more tranquilizers of course, "But it does please me to see you here, I have been chasing you around after all…"
"You've been chasing me around? Whatever for? And what do you mean? Five-hundred years old? That's impossible." I ask each question slowly and more spaced out to draw out my time, my body is already breaking down the sedatives from the other darts. I just need a little longer, then I will be able to get up and past them to that second-floor balcony overlook that Moore just came down from. Then from there a simple dash to a window and out. And alone I won't have to act as a shield for anyone so I can simply dodge the darts instead of taking them full on.
"Less impossible than you might think apparently. Those Who Came Before were incredible after all." He starts darkly before cheering his tone up, "And why of course, I've been chasing you. You are my niece after all. And what do you owe the Assassins? A sloppy rescue effort? They did fail the first time of course. Leaving you to find your family alone…" So they did buy that I didn't have any help at all. "I am sorry we spooked you then though… It hadn't been my intention. I had brought them with me because I had expected the Assassins to attack us. And they did. Eight of my people were attacked on your rooftop after we had gone after you. Simply because they failed to get to you first. They are just so violent." I listen as Zachariah spins his tale, "I don't imagine your mother told you anything after I met you, did she?"
"Only that you endangered Mesonyx and that your parents had long since disowned you… Oh and that apparently there was a restraining order that you violated by approaching me in that café." He clicks his tongue and sighs as he reaches the bottom of the stairs.
The sedatives aren't quite out of my system yet… But if I can play like I am been dragged along in this then maybe I can buy a few extra minutes.
"See, even then she stretched the truth. If there had been a restraining order what use was it to constantly move you all around? See? It just doesn't add up does it?" I narrow my eyes at him, his lies only getting thicker by the second, "But they've already begun to taint your mind against us… I can see it in your eyes. The defiance of the freedom that adores chaos. I had hoped we could do this in a civilized manner, but I don't imagine you'll just come along, will you?"
"I don't make a habit of just going along with people who are using threats to get what they want." I hiss. I must have taken more of the darts than I thought… But a few more minutes and I'll be able to hazard taking a couple more and still get away.
"A pity." He answers curtly.
Then a shadow drops down beside me, I look to see Nyx, my oldest sister. I feel a little at ease by it, and at the same time worried. She hasn't learnt the truth yet, but if we're going to get out of here she'll have to. I turn to keep her at my back. I also need to find a new way out…
"Don't worry." She whispers, "I'm here to help."
Then I feel a stabbing at my neck, I turn and hop away from her to see Mesonyx holding a syringe, now empty in her hand as the world begins to swim before my eyes, it's too much sedative all at once…
I fall forward and she catches me.
"We're going to help you… It's okay." She says as she lays me on the ground.
Then everything goes black around me.
And the world disappears.